SPSS reported 2009 first quarter revenues of $72.1 million, down 8% from $78.2 million in the same quarter of 2008.

IBM has launched stream computing software, IBM System S, for perpetual analytics - utilising “a new streaming architecture and breakthrough mathematical algorithms”.

Autonomy’s deferred revenue - from deals already signed but not yet on the books - increased to $163.7million at March 31, from $99.2 million at December 31.

Open Text, which is buying Vignette Corporation for about $310 million, said it is committed to meeting its profitability targets while generating strong cash flow from operations.

Text analytics software company TEMIS’ first quarter revenue grew by over 30 percent to $2.7 million.
 

Market research firm Harris Interactive has introduced a new solution that integrates text mining technology from Clarabridge and proprietary advanced analytics to map market trends.

Celera Corporation has tied up with InforSense to further investigate genetic markers for Coronary Heart Disease.

IT company Bioalma has shared that its free biomedical search engine novo|seek is now capable of executing full-text searches in all Open Access journals housed in PubMed Central.

We would recommend checking out Manya Mayes, SAS Chief Text Mining strategist blog at http://blogs.sas.com/text-mining/.

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